Gladys Hulette

Gladys Hulette (July 21, 1896 – August 8, 1991) was an American silent film actress from Arcade, New York. Her career began in the early years of silent movies and continued until the mid-1930s. She first performed on stage at age 3 and on screen when she was age 7. Hulette was also a talented artist. Her mother was an opera star.

Child actress

Hulette was among the principal players in Sappho and Phaon which had its first performance in Providence, Rhode Island on October 4, 1907. She helped support Bertha Kalich in the Percy MacKaye production. As a child, she appeared in Romeo and Juliet (1908) and The Smoke Fairy (1909). On Broadway, in The Blue Bird (1910), she played Tyltyl. She was Beth in Little Women (1912). Her other Broadway credits included The Kreutzer Sonata (1906), A Doll's House (1907), and The Faith Healer (1910).

In the early 1980s, Hulette was visited by film historian Walter Coppedge while living under distressed circumstances as a ward of the state in an institution in Rosemead, California. Coppedge wrote: "Yet her eyes are bright, her figure supple, her complexion pink and porcelain. She is still graciously appreciative of kindness, especially the assurance that she would not be forgotten as long as people look at her films."

Death Gladys Hulette died in Montebello, California on August 8, 1991, aged 95.

Selected filmography

Romeo and Juliet (1908) Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1910) The Librarian (1912, Short) The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies (1914) Eugene Aram (1915) The Shine Girl (1916) In the Name of the Law (1916) Prudence the Pirate (1916) A Crooked Romance (1917) The Cigarette Girl (1917) Her New York (1917) The Candy Girl (1917) The Streets of Illusion (1917) The Last of the Carnabys (1917) Over the Hill (1917) Miss Nobody (1917) For Sale (1918) Annexing Bill (1918) Waifs (1918) The Silent Barrier (1920) Tol'able David (1921) The Referee (1922) Fair Lady (1922) How Women Love (1922) The Secrets of Paris (1922) Enemies of Women (1923) Hoodman Blind (1923) As a Man Lives (1923) The Iron Horse (1924) The Slanderers (1924) The Family Secret (1924) The Night Message (1924) The Ridin' Kid from Powder River (1924) The Thoroughbred (1925) Private Affairs (1925) Lena Rivers (1925) The Pride of the Force (1925) The Mystic (1925) Go Straight (1925) The Skyrocket (1926) Be Your Age (1926) The Night Owl (1926) The Warning Signal (1926) Unknown Treasures (1926) Combat (1927) A Bowery Cinderella (1927) Faithless Lover (1928) Making the Varsity (1928) Life's Crossroads (1928) Her Resale Value (1933)